Comments on: Topps unveils Ginter artifacts

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:35:41 +0000

Personally, I think these are incredibly cool, regardless of collector value. A megalodon tooth? A coin from the Roman empire? These things are historically fascinating and certainly more interesting than yet another printing gimmick like those absurd Bowman refractors, x-fractors, etc.

Allen and Ginter brought this collector back into card collecting after a 25 year absence. It’s this sort of thing that makes Allen and Ginter the best thing to happen to card collecting since they took the gum out of the packs.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:05:33 +0000

Cool – I agree – but not at $1000…..not even at $200!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 22:44:55 +0000

I think that list looks pretty cool. This cards aren’t my thing but cool none the less.

By: Kory Kasler

Kory Kasler — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 20:42:31 +0000

You really can’t blame Topps on this one. Topps made no guarantee on value, and I never would have dropped anywhere near the hundreds and thousands of dollars on these without any clue about what I was getting. Someone just lost out on a $1000 lottery ticket.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 13:04:09 +0000

Seems to me the point is not “of these items can be had in non-card form for well under $50″.
Rather that depending on the print run, these are a very rare corner-stone to this popular set.

I can make a baseball card myself, even get a player to sign it, but it would be worthless vs a 1/1 Topps Pujols auto’d card.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 22:19:04 +0000

Seems like all the investor types are mad…Good. They collect for the wrong reasons anyway. A&G always has cards out of left field. If folks aren’t smart enough to know that then they shouldn’t whine like babies when there REDEMPTION is one of these cards which I think are pretty cool. If the investors don’r want those, I’ll take them.

By: Bill Donnely

Bill Donnely — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 17:16:44 +0000

I don’t know why people blame the card company, if you dish out a grand site unseen you are a moron.

By: Lou

Lou — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 13:40:12 +0000

Yet another Topps disappointment

By: mike

mike — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 01:07:47 +0000

Ditto……..NOT worth the hype!

By: Josiah Cecil

Josiah Cecil — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 21:38:54 +0000

Weird!!!